Tópicos de Historia Económica

Tópicos de Hist. Econ. – 2019 (Drelichman & Murphy)

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Tópicos de Historia Económica Segundo trimestre 2019 – Maestría en Economía

Mauricio DRELICHMAN [email protected]

Tommy E. MURPHY [email protected]

Objetivos

El pasado es un laboratorio experimental único en ciencias sociales y, en la

mayoría de los casos, la agenda de investigación del historiador económico se su-perpone con la del estudiante de economía aplicada en general. El programa de este curso está diseñado para presentar a los estudiantes una serie de debates y controversias relacionadas al desarrollo económico en el largo plazo. El curso se basa en el trabajo previo de los estudiantes en economía, mediante la aplicación de conocimientos teóricos básicos y herramientas empíricas a diversos temas his-tóricos. El énfasis estará en reforzar la capacidad para leer críticamente, com-prender la aplicabilidad de modelos formales, y evaluar los méritos de interpreta-ciones rivales con respecto a los datos históricos disponibles. Modalidad de trabajo y evaluación

El curso consiste en 12 clases semanales de tres horas cada una, que típica-

mente tendrán lugar los martes a la mañana, 8.30-11.30 (¡chequear el calendario al final del programa por excepciones a la regla, y el correo electrónico por cam-bios de último momento!). Cada clase comenzará con una presentación del tema del día, seguida de una discusión de artículos científicos, incluyendo algunos que serán presentados por los estudiantes.

La evaluación consta de tres elementos: • El 30% de la nota corresponderá al trabajo en clase, compuesto de:

- Presentación(es) de artículo(s) científicos (15%); y - Participación general en discusiones (15%);

• Un 35% de la nota vendrá de la evaluación de un ensayo que se realizará a lo largo del trimestre;

• El último 35% será de un examen domiciliario.

Se espera que las clases sean participativas y, por ello, se evaluará la inter-vención de los estudiantes en ellas, especialmente en la discusión de los artícu-los obligatorios (es decir, los textos identificados en la bibliografía de abajo con un punto: ‘•’). Los estudiantes tendrán también que presentar ellos mismos al me-nos un artículo científico. La selección de este artículo (entre los indicados en la bibliografía con una flecha: ‘⇒’) se hará en coordinación con el instructor, y en clase se darán indicaciones generales sobre cómo realizar estas presentaciones.



Junto con la definición del artículo(s) a presentar, en los primeros días del trimestre el instructor y los estudiantes definirán en forma individual el tema de un ensayo de 2.500 palabras, en castellano o inglés, que deberán presentar antes de las 9.00 horas del 19 de agosto de 2019. Los alumnos que estén interesados en recibir feedback sobre su trabajo antes de esta presentación definitiva, podrán en-viar al instructor un (1) borrador para ser comentado (pero no evaluado) en cualquier momento del trimestre, pero no más allá de las 13.00 del 18 de julio de 2019.

Por último, habrá un examen domiciliario (de fecha a ser definida) donde se pedirá responder en 48 horas tres (3) preguntas (de un total de seis, con lo cual habrá un cierto grado de elección sobre qué se quiere responder) en formato de ensayo de 1.000 palabras cada una, sobre temas discutidos en clase. La califica-ción se basará en si las respuestas:

• Enfocan correctamente la pregunta; • Presentan adecuadamente los hechos; • Elaboran el argumento en forma lógica y con una estructura clara; • Usan en forma adecuada la literatura, teorías y perspectivas históricas

discutidas durante el curso; • Muestran profundidad de análisis.

Estructura del programa y lecturas

El curso discutirá una serie de temas que, si bien están relacionados entre ellos, son en principio auto-contenidos. Para estudiar estos temas, se seguirá la lectura de una serie de artículos académicos y capítulos de libros, todos detalla-dos a continuación. La lista es bastante exhaustiva, pero sólo una proporción de ella, aquellos textos identificados con un punto (•), califican como obligatorios en lo que respecta a las discusiones que se van a tener en clase. Aquellos marca-dos con un “tick” (P) son lecturas complementarias que probablemente serán dis-cutidas también en cierta medida en clase, pero para el contenido relevante de ellas, las notas de clase deberían ser suficientes. Los textos indicados con la fle-cha (⇒) son aquellos que serán presentados en el curso por estudiantes, previa coordinación con el instructor. Los estudiantes que no presenten estos textos no están obligados a leerlos, pero si están invitados a hacerlo (y probablemente esa lectura estimule una discusión más fructífera en clase). El resto son lecturas que están ahí simplemente para servir como una guía a los estudiantes que desean avanzar en su estudio sobre un tema en particular. Clase 1. La importancia de las instituciones

ü Abramitzky, R. [2015]; “Economics and the Modern Economic Historian,” Journal

of Economic History, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 1240–1251 • Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson & J. Robinson [2001]; “The Colonial Origins of Com-

parative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1369-1401

ü Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, & J. A. Robinson [2002]; “Reversal of Fortune: Geog-raphy and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, No. 4, pp. 1231-1294



• Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, & J. A. Robinson [2005]; “Institutions as a Fun-damental Cause of Long-run Growth”, en P. Aghion & S. Durlauf (eds.); Hand-book of Econ. Growth –Volume 1A– (Elsevier), Cap. 6, pp. 385-472, disponible en http://economics.mit.edu/files/4469

• Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, & J. A. Robinson [2005]; “The Rise of Europe: Atlan-tic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth”, American Economic Re-view, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 385-47546-579.

Allen, R. C. [2011]; Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)

ü Clark, G. [2007]; A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Prince-ton University Press), Cap. 1, pp. 1–16

Diamond, J. [1997]; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society (W. W. Norton)

Goldin, C. [1995]; “Cliometrics and the Nobel,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 191–208

Hicks, J. [1969]; A Theory of Economic History (Oxford University Press), pp. 1–8 Maddison, A. [2001]; The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (OECD), pp.

27–48 McCloskey, D. N. [1976]; “Does the Past Have Useful Economics?,” Journal of Eco-

nomic Literature, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 434–461 Morris, I. [2011]; Why the West Rules –For Now–: The Patterns of History and What

They Reveal about the Future (Profile Books) North, D. C. [1990]; Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

(Cambridge University Press) North, D. C. & R. P. Thomas [1973]; The Rise of the Western World: A New Eco-

nomic History (Cambridge University Press) ü Nunn, N. [2009]; “The Importance of History for Economic Development,” Annual

Review of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 65-92 Rodrick, D., A. Subramanian, & F. Trebbi [2004]; “Institutions Rule: The Pri-

macy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development,” Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 9, pp. 131-165

Clase 2. Persistencia, instituciones de orden privado y segundo mejor

Acemoglu, D., & J. A. Robinson [2012]; Why Nations Fail (Profile Books), Cap. 3-

4, pp. 70-123 Acemoglu, D., D. Cantoni, S. Johnson, & J. A. Robinson [2011]; “The Conse-

quences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution,” American Economic Review, Vol. 101, No. 7, pp. 3286-3307

De La Croix, D., M. Doepke, & J. Mokyr [2018]; “Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 1-70

• Dell, M. [2010]; “The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining Mita,” Econometrica, Vol. 78, No. 6, pags. 1863–1903

• Drelichman, M. [2009]; “License to Till: The Privileges of the Spanish Mesta as a Case Study of Second-Best Institutions,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 46, pags. 220–240

• Greif, A. [1989]; “Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 857-882



Greif, A. [1992]; “Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commer-cial Revolution,” American Economic Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, Papers and Proceed-ings, pp. 128-133

ü Greif, A. [2006]; Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy (Cambridge Uni-versity Press), Cap. 2: “Institutions and Transactions”, pp. 29-53

Greif, A., & G. Tabellini [2010]; “Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared,” American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 135-140

Leeson, P. T. [2011]; The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Prince-ton University Press)

ü Leeson, P. T. [2007]; “An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organiza-tion,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 115, No. 6, pp. 1049–1094

Milgrom, P. R., D. C. North, & B. R. Weingast [1990]; “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs,” Economics and Politics, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 1-23

ü Ogilvie, S. [2007]; “‘Whatever is, is Right’? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe,” Economic History Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 649–684

Puga, D., & D. Trefler [2014]; “International Trade and Institutional Change: Me-dieval Venice´s Response to Globalization,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 753-821

Clase 3. Instituciones, formación del estado y su financiamiento

Bean, R. [1973]; “War and the Birth of the Nation State,” Journal of Economic His-

tory, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 203-221 Borcan, O., O. Olsson, & L. Putterman [2018]; “State History and Economic De-

velopment: Evidence from Six Millennia,” Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-40

Cervellati, M., S. Lazzaroni, G. Prarolo, & P. Vanin [2018]; “Sovereign Polities and Pre-Industrial Development: Theory and Evidence for Europe 1000-1850,” MIMEO

• Drelichman, M. & H.-J. Voth [2010]; “The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Recon-struction of Castile’s Fiscal Position, 1566-1596,” The Journal of Economic His-tory, Vol. 70, No. 4 pags. 813-842

Þ Drelichman, M. & H.-J. Voth [2011]; “Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II,” Economic Journal, Vol. 121, No. 557 pags. 1205-1227

Drelichman, M. & H.-J. Voth [2011]; “Serial Defaults, Serial Profits: Returns to Sovereign Lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 48, No. 1 pags. 1-19

• Drelichman, M. & H.-J. Voth [2015]; “Risk Sharing with the Monarch: Contingent Debt and Excusable Default in the Age of Philip II, 1566-1598,” Cliometrica, Vol. 9, No. 1 pags. 49-75

Gennaioli, G., & H.-J. Voth [2015]; “State Capacity and Military Conflict,” in Re-view of Economic Studies, Vol. 82, pp. 1409-1448

Greif, A. [1994]; “On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” Journal of Eco-nomic History, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 271-287

Hoffman, P. T., & J.-L. Rosenthal [1997]; “The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic



Development”, in J. N. Drobak & J. V. C. Nye (eds.); The Frontiers of the New In-stitutional Economics (Academic Press), pp. 31–55

Karaman, K. K., & S. Pamuk [2013]; “Different Paths to the Modern State in Eu-rope: The Interaction Between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Re-gime,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 603-626

North, D. C., & R. Thomas[1973]; The Rise of the Western World (Cambridge Uni-versity Press), Ch. 1-2, pp. 1-18

Rokkan, S. [1975]; “Dimensions of State Formation and Nation-Building: A Possi-ble Paradigm for Research on Variations within Europe,” in C. Tilly (ed.); The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton University Press), Ch. 8, pp. 562-600

Spruyt, H. [2009]; “War, Trade, and State Formation,” in C. Boix & S. C. Stokes (eds); The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press), Ch. 9, pp. 211-235

ü Stasavage, D. [2010]; “When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Devel-opment of European Representative Assemblies,” American Political Science Re-view, Vol. 104, No. 4, pp. 625-643

Stasavage, D. [2011]; States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of Euro-pean Politics (Princeton University Press), Ch. 5, pp. 94-109

ü Stasavage, D. [2016]; “Representation and Consent: Why They Arose in Europe and Not Elsewhere,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 19, pp. 145-162

Stayer, J. R. [1970]; On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Princeton Uni-versity Press)

Tilly, C. [1985]; “War making and state making as organized crime,” in P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer, and T. Skocpol (eds.); Bringing the State Back in (Cambridge Uni-versity Press), pp. 169–187

ü Tilly, C. [1990]; Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 (Blackwell), Ch. 1: Cities and States in World History, pp. 1-37

ü Tilly, C. [1990]; Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 (Blackwell), Ch. 3: How War Made States, and Vice Versa, pp. 67-95

Turchin, P., T. Currie, E. Turner, & S. Gavrilets [2013]; “War, Space, and the Evolution of Old-World Complex Societies,” Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, Vol. 110, No. 41, pp. 16384–16389

Clase 4. ¿Cuánto importa la geografía para el crecimiento?

Allen, R. C. [1997]; “Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt,” Ex-

plorations in Economic History, Vol. 34, pp. 135-154 Alsan, M. [2015]; “The Effect of the Tse Tse Fly on African Development,” American

Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 382-410 Bentzen, J. S., N. Kaarsen, & A. M. Wingender [2017]; “Irrigation and Autoc-

racy,” Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1–53 ü Diamond, J. [1997]; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, (W. W.

Norton & Company), Cap. 4 Diamond, J. [2002]; “Evolution, Consequences and the Future of Plant and Animal

Domestication,” Nature, 418, pp. 700-707 • Engerman, S. & K. Sokoloff [2002]; “Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Paths

of Development Among New World Economies,” NBER Working Paper, No. 9259, URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9259



Galor, O., & Ö. Özak [2016]; “The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference,” Ameri-can Economic Review, Vol. 106, No. 10, pp. 3064-3103

Hibbs, D. A. Jr., & O. Olsson, O. [2004]; “Geography, biogeography, and why some countries are rich and others are poor,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 101, No. 10, pp. 3715-3720

Mellinger, A. D., J. D. Sachs, & J. L. Gallup [1999]; “Climate, Water Navigabil-ity, and Economic Development,” Harvard University CID Working Paper, No. 24

Þ Nunn, N. [2008]; “The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades,” Quarterly Jour-nal of Economics, Vol. 123, No. 1, pp. 139-176

• Nunn, N., & D. Puga [2012]; “Ruggedness: The blessing of Bad Geography in Af-rica,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 20-36

ü Nunn, N., & N. Qian [2011]; “The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbani-zation: Evidence from a Historical Experiment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126, No. 2, pp. 593-650

ü Sachs, J. D. [2001]; “Tropical Underdevelopment,” NBER Working Paper, No. 8119, URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w8119.pdf

Sokoloff, K. L. & S. L. Engerman [2000]; “History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, pp. 217–232

Clase 5. ¿Cómo pensamos sobre cultura?

Alesina, A., & P. Giuliano [2015]; “Culture and Institutions,” Journal of Economic

Literature, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 898-944 Alesina, A., P. Giuliano, & N. Nunn [2011]; “Fertility and the Plough,” American

Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 101, No. 3, pp. 499-503 • Alesina, A., P. Giuliano, & N. Nunn [2013]; “On the Origins of Gender Roles:

Women and the Plough,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 469-530

Bazzi, S., M. Fiszbein, & M. Gebresilasse [2017]; “Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of ‘Rugged Individualism’ in The United States,” NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23997, URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23997

Boyd, R., & P. J. Richerson [2005]; The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Oxford University Press)

Cavalli-Sforza, L., & M. Feldman [1981]; Cultural Transmission and Evolution (Princeton University Press)

• Giuliano, P., & N. Nunn [2018]; “Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change,” MIMEO, URL: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/files/tradition_pa-per_v15.pdf

Guiso, L., P. Sapienza, & L. Zingales [2006]; “Does Culture Affect Economic Out-comes?,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 23-48

Guiso, L., P. Sapienza, & L. Zingales [2016]; “Long-Term Persistence,” Journal of European Economic Association, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1401-1436

ü Henrich, J. [2016]; The Secret of Our Successes: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Princeton Uni-versity Press), Cap. 1-5

Nunn, N. [2008]; “The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades,” Quarterly Jour-nal of Economics, Vol. 123, No. 1, pp. 139-176

ü Nunn, N. [2012]; “Culture and the Historical Process,” Economic History of Develop-ing Regions, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. S108-S126



Olsson, O., & C. Paik [2016]; “Long-run cultural divergence: Evidence from the Ne-olithic Revolution,” Journal of Development Economics, Vo. 122, pp. 197-213

ü Spolaore, E. & R. Wacziarg [2013]; “How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Devel-opment?,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 325-369

Þ Voigtländer, N., & H. J. Voth [2012]; “Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Or-igins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 1339-1392

Clase 6. ¿En qué forma afecta la religión?

ü Barro, R., & R. McCleary [2003]; “Religion and Economic Growth across Coun-

tries,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 760–781 • Becker, S. O., & L. Pascali [2018]; “Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-

Semitism in Germany over 600 Years,” MIMEO, URL: https://www.drop-box.com/s/61yycc5ogucd1yr/Manuscript.pdf?dl=0

ü Becker, S. O., & L. Woessmann [2009]; “Was Weber wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 124, No. 2, pp. 531-596

Becker, S. O., & L. Woessmann [2018]; “Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. C, No. 3, pp. 531-596

Bénabou, R., D. Ticchi, & A. Vindigni [2015]; “Religion and Innovation,” Ameri-can Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 346-351

• Botticini, M. & Z. Eckstein [2007]; “From Farmers to Merchants, Conversions and Diaspora: Human Capital and Jewish History,” Journal of the European Eco-nomic Association, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 885–926

Botticini, M., & Z. Eckstein [2005]; “Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 922-948

Campante, F., & D. Yanagizawa-Drott [2015]; “Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan,” Quarterly Journal of Econom-ics, Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 615-658

Cantoni, D. [2015]; “The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands,” Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 377-391

Chaney, E. [2016]; “Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science,” MIMEO, URL: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/chaney/files/paper.pdf

ü Ekelund, R. B. (Jr.), R. F. Hébert, & R. Tollison [2006]; “Catholicism, Protes-tantism, and Economic Performance,” in Ekelund (Jr.), Hébert and Tollison [2006]; The Marketplace of Christianity (MIT Press), pp. 189-231

ü Iannaccone, L. R. [1998]; “Introduction to the Economics of Religion,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 36, September, pp. 1465–1496

Jedwab, R., M. Koyama, & N. Johnson [2017]; “Negative Shocks and Mass Per-secutions: Evidence from the Black Death,” Institute for International Economic Policy Working Paper Series, No. 2017-4

Saleh, M. [2018]; “On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 78, No. 2, pp. 394-434

Þ Squicciarini, M. P. [2017]; “Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France,” MIMEO, URL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecve2kloxckcka0/Squicciarini_JMP_Latest.pdf?dl=0



Clase 7. De Malthus a Solow

• Alter, G. & G. Clark [2010]; “The Demographic Transition and Human Capital”, en

S. Broadberry & K. O’Rourke, K. (eds.); The Cambridge Economic History of Mod-ern Europe, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press), Cap. 2, pp. 44-69

Becker, G. S. [1993]; A Treatise on the Family (Harvard University Press), Cap. 5, pp. 135-178

Chesnais, J.-C. [1992]; The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns, and Eco-nomic Implications (Clarendon Press)

Clark, G. [2005]; “Human Capital, Fertility, and the Industrial Revolution,” Jour-nal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3, Issue 2/3, pp. 505-515

ü Clark, G. [2007]; A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Prince-ton University Press), Chapter 2, pp. 19–39

Coale, A., & S. C. Watkins (eds.) [1986]; The Decline of Fertility in Europe: The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project (Princeton University Press)

Crafts, N., & T. Mills [2009]; “From Malthus to Solow: How Did the Malthusian Economy Really Evolve?,” Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 68-93

De Moor, T., & J. L. Van Zanden [2010]; “Girl Power: The European Marriage Pattern and Labor Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period,” Economic History Review, Vol. 63, pp. 1-33

Galor, O. [2005]; “From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory,” en P. Agh-ion & S. N. Durlauf (eds.); Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A (Elsevier), pp. 171–293

• Galor, O., & D. N. Weil [1999]; “From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 150-154

Galor, O., & D. N. Weil [2000]; “Population, Technology, and Growth: From Mal-thusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond,” American Eco-nomic Review, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 806–828

ü Guinnane, Timothy W. [2011]; “The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 589-614

Hajnal, J. [1965]; “European Marriage Patterns in Perspective,” en D.V. Glass & D.E.C. Eversley (eds.); Population in History (Aldine Publishing Company), pp. 101 143

Hansen, G. D., & E. C. Prescott [2002]; “Malthus to Solow,” American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 4, pp. 1205–1217

Lee, R. [1997]; “Population Dynamics: Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Conse-quences of Fluctuations," en M. Rosenzweig & O. Stark (eds.); Handbook of Popu-lation and Family Economics –Volume 1B– (Sorth Holland), pp. 1063-1115

Murphy, T. E. [2015]; “Old Habits Die Hard (Sometimes): Can Département Heter-ogeneity Tell us Something about the French Fertility Decline?,” Journal of Eco-nomic Growth , Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 177-222

Nicolini, E. A. [2007]; “Was Malthus Right? A VAR Analysis of Economic and De-mographic Interactions in Pre- Industrial England,” European Review of Eco-nomic History, Vol. 11, pp. 99–121

ü Voigtländer, N. & H.-J. Voth [2009]; “Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Eu-rope: Make War, Not Love,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 248-254



Voigtländer, N. & H.-J. Voth [2013]; “How the West ‘Invented’ Fertility Re-striction,” American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2227-2264

Þ Voigtländer, N. & H.-J. Voth [2013]; “The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe,” Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 774-811

Clase 8. Controlando al estado

Acemoglu, D., & J. Robinson [2006]; Economic Origins of Dictatorship and De-

mocracy (Cambridge University Press), Ch. 2, pp. 15-47 Acemoglu, D., & J. Robinson [2012]; Why Nations Fail (Profile Books), Ch. 11, pp.

302-334 • Acemoglu, D., & J. Robinson [2016]; “Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions,” in

J. Eloranta, E. Golson, A. Markevich, & N. Wolf (eds.); Economic History of War-fare and State Formation (Springer) pp. 3-50

• Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, & J. Robinson [2005]; “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3. pp. 546–579

Besley, T., & T. Persson [2009]; “The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics,” American Economic Review, Vol. 99, pp. 1218–1244

ü Besley, T., & T. Persson [2011]; Pillars of Prosperity (Princeton University Press), Ch. 1, pp. 1-39

Dincecco, M. [2009]; “Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Reve-nues in Europe, 1650-1913,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 48-103

ü Dincecco, M. [2015]; “The Rise of Effective States in Europe,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 901-918

Dincecco, M. & G. Katz [2016]; “State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Perfor-mance,” Economic Journal, Vol. 126, No. 3, pp. 189-218

Epstein, S.R. [2000]; Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Eu-rope, 1300-1750 (Routledge), Cap. 2: Freedom, freedoms and growth, pp. 12-37

Hoffman, M. [2015]; “What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 303-332

ü Johnson, N. D., & M. Koyama [2017]; “States and Economic Growth: Capacity and Constraints,”Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 1–20

• North, D. C., & B. R. Weingast [1989]; “Constitutions and Commitment: Evolution of Institutions governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England,” Jour-nal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 803-832

North, D. C., & R. Thomas[1973]; The Rise of the Western World (Cambridge Uni-versity Press), Cap. 12, pp. 146-156

Þ Sargent, T., & F. Velde [1995]; “Macroeconomic Features of the French Revolu-tion,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103, No. 3, pp. 474-518

ü Tilly, C. [1990]; Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 (Blackwell), Ch. 4: States and Their Citizens, pp. 96-126

Clase 9. Revoluciones antes de la revolución (industrial)

Allen, R. C. [1988]; “The Growth of Labor Productivity in Early Modern English Ag-

riculture,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 117-146



Allen, R. C. [1992]; Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (Oxford University Press), Cap. 1

Allen, R. C. [1999]; “Tracking the Agricultural Revolution in England,” Economic History Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 209-235

Allen, R.C. [2000]; “Economic Structure and Agricultural Productivity in Europe, 1300-1800,” European Review of Economic History, Vol. 3, pp. 1-25

• Allen, R. C. [2009]; The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Cam-bridge Univ. Press), Cap. 3: “The Agricultural Revolution”, pp. 57-79

Allen, R. C., & C. Ó Gráda [1988]; “On the Road Again with Arthur Young: Eng-lish, Irish, and French Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 48, pp. 93-116

Allen, R. C., & J. Weisdorf [2011]; “Was There an ‘Industrious Revolution’ before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300–1830,” Economic History Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 715–729

Clark, G. [2005]; “The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209-2003,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, No. 6, pp. 1307–1340

Clark, G., & Y. Van Der Werf [1998]; “Work in Progress? The Industrious Revolu-tion,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 58, pp. 830-843

ü De Vries, J. [1994]; “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution”, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 54, pp. 249-270

• De Vries, J. [2008]; The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the House-hold Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge University Press), Cap. 3: ‘The In-dustrious Revolution: The Supply of Labor’, pp. 73-121

Horrell, S., J. Humphries, & K. Sneath [2015]; “Consumption conundrums un-ravelled,” Economic History Review, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 830-857

ü Humphries, J. & J. Wesidorf [2017]; “Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850,” EHES Working Papers in Economic History, No. 121, URL: http://www.ehes.org/EHES_121.pdf

ü McCloskey, D. N. [1972]; “The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century,” Jour-nal of Economic History, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 15-35

McCloskey, D. N. [1991]; “The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 343-355

Overton, M. [1996]; Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850 (Cambridge University Press)

ü Voth, H.-J. [2001]; “The Longest Years: New Estimates of Labor Input in England, 1760-1830,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1065-82

Clase 10. Explicando la Revolución Industrial

Allen, R. C [2009]; “The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in

Britain, France, and India,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 901-927

• Allen, R. C. [2011]; “Why the Industrial Revolution was British: Commerce, In-duced Innovation and the Scientific Revolution,” Economic History Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 357-384

ü Allen, R.C. [2001]; “The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 38, pp. 411-447



Allen, R.C. [2017]; “The Hand-Loom Weaver and the Power Loom: A Schumpet-erian Perspective,” NYU Abu Dhabi, Division of Social Science Working Paper Se-ries, No. 4

ü Broadberry, S. and B. Gupta [2006]; “The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800,” Eco-nomic History Review, Vol. 59, No.1, pp. 2–31

Þ Kelly, M., & C. Ó Gráda [2016]; “Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, Vol. 131, No. 4, pp. 1727-1752

ü Kelly, M., J. Mokyr, & C. Ó Gráda [2014]; “Precocious Albion: A New Interpreta-tion of the British Industrial Revolution,” Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 363-389

Mokyr, J. [1990]; The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Pro-gress (Oxford University Press)

Mokyr, J. [1999]; “Editor’s Introduction: The New Economic History and the Indus-trial Revolution,” en J. Mokyr (ed.); The British Industrial Revolution: An Eco-nomic Perspective (Westview Press), pp. 1–127

ü Mokyr, J. [2005]; “The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, pp. 285-351

• Mokyr, J. [2007]; “The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth,” Max Weber Lecture Series, (disponible en http://cad-mus.eui.eu/handle/1814/7631)

Ó Gráda, C. [2016]; “Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution?,” Journal of Eco-nomic Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 224-239

Pomeranz, K. [2000]; The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, Princeton University Press)

Pritchett, L. [1997]; “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, pp. 3-17

Shiue, C. H., & W. Keller [2007]; “Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution,” American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, pp. 1189-1216

ü Squicciarini, M. P., & N. Voigtländer [2015]; “Human Capital and Industrializa-tion: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 130, No. 4, pp. 1825-1883

Studer, R. [2015]; The Great Divergence Reconsidered: Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power (Cambridge University Press), Cap. 1-2, pp. 1-69

ü Temin, P. [1997]; “Two Views of the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 63–68

Voigtländer, N. and H.-J. Voth [2006]; “Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation During the Industrial Rev-olution,” Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2006

Clase 11. Hacia una economía globalizada

Bogart, D. [2005]; “Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th

Century Britain,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 479-508 ü Chilosi, D., T. E. Murphy, R. Studer & A. C. Tunçer [2013]; “Europe’s Many In-

tegrations: Geography and Grain Markets, 1620-1913,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 46-68

De Vries, J. [2010]; “The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World,” Eco-nomic History Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 710-733



Donaldson, D. [2018]; “Railroads and the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transpor-tation Infrastructure,” American Economic Review, Vol. 108, No. 4-5, pp. 899-934

Þ Drelichman, M. [2005]; “The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 349-380

Jacks, D. and K. Pendakur [2010]; “Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 92, No. 4, 745-755

ü Jacks, D. S. [2006]; “What Drove 19th Century Commodity Market Integration?,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 383-412

Jacks, D. S., C. M. Meissner, & D. Novy [2010]; “Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 127-141

Leunig, T. [2006]; “Time is Money: A Reassessment of the Passenger Social Savings from British railways,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 635-73.

ü Nunn, N. and N. Qian [2010]; “The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 163-188

O’Brien, Patrick K. [1982]; “European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery,” Economic History Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

• O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [1999]; Globalization and History: The Evo-lution of a Nineteenth–Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press), Cap. 3, pp. 29-55 & Cap. 5, pp. 77-92

O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [2002a]; “After Columbus: Explaining Eu-rope's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500 – 1800,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 417-456

O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [2002b]; “When Did Globalisation Begin?,” European Review of Economic History, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 23-50

• Pascali, L. [2017]; “The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Eco-nomic Development,” American Economic Review, Vol. 107, No. 9, pp. 2821-2854

Clase 12. Consecuencias de la globalización

Foreman-Peck, J. [1992]; “A Political Economy of International Migration, 1815-

1914,” Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 359-376

Goldin, C. [1994]; “The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890-1921,” en C. Goldin & G. D. Lipecap (eds.); The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy (University of Chicago Press), pp. 223-257

Leamer, E. H. [1995]; “The Heckscher-Ohlin Model in Theory and Practice,” Prince-ton Studies in International Finance Working Paper, No. 77

O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [1994]; “Late 19th Century Anglo-American Factor Price Convergence: Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right?,” Journal of Eco-nomic History, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 1-25

• O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [1999]; Globalization and History: The Evo-lution of a Nineteenth–Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press), Cap. 4, pp. 57-75

ü O’Rourke, K. H., & J. G. Williamson [1999]; Globalization and History: The Evo-lution of a Nineteenth–Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press), Cap. 6-10

O’Rourke, K. H., A. M. Taylor, & J. G. Williamson [1996]; “Factor Price Conver-gence in the Late Nineteenth Century,” International Economic Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 499-530



Þ Pérez, S. [2017]; “The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 971-1006

Timmer, A. S., & J. G. Williamson [1998]; “Immigration Policy Prior to the 1930s: Labor Markets, Policy Interactions, and Globalization Backlash,” Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 739-771

Williamson, J. G. [1995]; “The Evolution of Global Labor Markets Since 1830: Background Evidence and Hypotheses,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 141-196

Williamson, J. G. [1997]; “Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present,” World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 117–135

• Williamson, J. G. [1998]; “Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 51-72

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